124 Ohio App. 3d 706 - State v. McNamara’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
1,118 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,120 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Burnside (2003), In re A.J.S. (2008)
1,118 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Knapp v. Edwards Laboratories · State v. Carter · Berk v. Matthews · 86 Ohio App. 3d 592 - State v. Guysinger · City of Defiance v. Kretz
Cited together with State v. Burnside · State v. Fanning · Terry v. Ohio · State v. Mills · United States v. Arvizu
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 1,120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court must accept the trial court's findings of fact if they are supported by competent, credible evidence.”
31 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Turpin · State v. Campbell“When considering a motion to suppress, the trial court assumes the role of trier of fact and is therefore in the best position to resolve factual questions and evaluate the credibility of witnesses.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“The General Assembly established the threshold criteria for the admissibility of alcohol-test results in prosecutions for driving under the influence and driving with a prohibited concentration of alcohol in R.C. 4511.19 (D). That section, which governs the admissibility of alcohol-test results, provides that a defendant's blood, breath, or urine `shall be analyzed in accordance with methods approved by the director of health by an individual possessing a valid permit issued by the director of health pursuant to section 3701.143 of the Revised Code.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.